At the Blog
On Monday, Ntina Tzouvala and Zohra Ahmed kicked off a series on international law under the second Trump administration. They posit that the current moment signifies a genuine departure from the US commitment to the liberal international legal order, while also insisting that it was the contradictions of that system that precipitated this rupture.
On Tuesday, Dylan Saba explained how the overt gangster-fication of US foreign policy, formalized in the Board of Peace, marks the culmination of a dangerous transformation in the nature of American hegemony.
And on Thursday, Matthew Scherer argued that the most pressing AI-driven crisis is the overestimation of AI’s capabilities and impacts, which has produced a historically large speculative AI bubble.
In LPE Land
The Association of Law and Political Economy has approved its proposed bylaws and are just beginning the process of electing its first Board of Directors. Become a member by June 19 if you want to vote in the election!
Testifying before Congress, Nikolas Bowie argues that Congress has the duty and the tools to protect our Constitution from judicial supremacy.
Why are nearly all U.S. colleges and universities run as liberal autocracies? David Pozen and Daniel Hemel explore this puzzle in a new paper, In Search of University Democracy.
In the NYT, Tressie McMillan Cottom explains that The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come.
